Apparatus for distinguishing living body fingerprint and method thereof

Abstract

An apparatus for distinguishing living body fingerprint from artificial fingerprint and a method thereof are provided. A living body recognition unit determines whether fingerprint in question is living body fingerprint or not, based on the unique color of the living body fingerprint and a change of the fingerprint color which is caused due to a change of contact pressure when the living body fingerprint is contacted with the fingerprint input window. A fingerprint recognition apparatus computes color information from the fingerprint image acquired by the color image sensor, and color change information based on the change of contact pressure, and determines whether the fingerprint in question is the living body fingerprint by determining whether or not the computed color information meets a reference color range and/or if the color change information meets a reference condition.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a) from Korean Patent Application No. 10-2008-0067903, filed on Jul. 14, 2008, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to an apparatus for distinguishing living body fingerprint and a method thereof, capable of determining whether or not fingerprint in an optically acquired fingerprint image is the living body fingerprint, based on an intrinsic color of a living body fingerprint and a change of fingerprint color caused due to a change of pressure when the fingertip is contacted with a fingerprint input window.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Biometric information has been used in a wide variety of systems that require verification of individuals due to high discriminability and invariability. Among biom...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]The method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may further include determining whether or not color information at one time point of the plural time points comprising the first and second time points, or an average of color information at two or more time points of the plural time points comprising the first and second time points, falls to a reference color range, and if not, determining the contacting fingerprint to be artificial fingerprint. The above step can precede the computing of the color change information. Accordingly, if the above step determines the fingerprint to be the artificial one, the computing of the color change information and the determining of the living body fingerprint may be omitted.

[0014]The reference color range may span from a color acquired from the living body fingerprint at one time point of the plural time points comprising the first and second time points to a color added with predetermined margin of the acquired color, or from an average of colors acquired from the living body fingerprint at two or more time points of the plural time points comprising the first and second time points to a color with a predetermined margin of the average of colors.

Problems solved by technology

However, despite the high level of accuracy, economics, and convenience of authentication it provides, the fingerprint recognition suffers the shortcoming of false authentication by fingerprint forgery.

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